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2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 43. DREDGING AND MANAGEMENT OF LAGOONS
Subchapter III. Formation of Tax Lagoon; Procedure
§ 4317. Filing of petition and report; action by district when formation is found to be not practicable and feasible.
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§ 4317. Filing of petition and report; action by district when formation is found to be not practicable and feasible.
(a) If the Division of Watershed Stewardship determines that the formation of the proposed tax lagoon is practicable, feasible and in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare, it shall file the petition in the office of the prothonotary of the county in which all or the major portion of the land involved is located.
(b) Where the Division of Watershed Stewardship determines that the formation of the proposed tax lagoon is not practicable and feasible or is not in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare, it shall so notify all of the petitioners involved, and a new petition for the formation of that tax lagoon may not be refiled for a period of 1 year from the date of said notice.
73 Del. Laws, c. 389, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 430, § 38;
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